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finding that C. satiiratus has a different cry, a note which may be syllabilised 
as “hoo”, resembling somewhat the cry of the Hoopoe. 
“Like all the Cuckoos”, says Sw inhoe (hS), “these birds in China are 
only summer visitants”, an observation confirmed by David (h 5), and by God- 
lew sky in the Baikal country, Danria, Ussuriland and the coasts of the Sea of 
Japan. So, likewise, according to Seebohm, it — if indeed this species is 
intended — visits all the Japanese Islands in summer. It is known as a breed- 
ing bird in the Himalayas, but in no other part of India as far as Mr. Oates 
is aware (2)\ in the winter it visits the low-lying Lucknow division (Be id, 
Str. F. 1887, X, 451), and Mr. Oates considers that it is probably only a winter 
visitor to Pegu and Tenasserim (a 6). Davison (a 4) did not hear it in the 
Andamans in December and January, but first noticed its cry on March Id*’^ in 
the Xicobars ; probably, we should think, like C. canorus, only the male utters 
this cry in the breeding season, for there are specimens from the Andamans in 
the British Museum obtained in December, January and February (4). Here, 
therefore, also it would appear to be a winter visitant. 
S chi eg el records the dates of 12 specimens ascribed to C. striatus killed 
in the Moluccas and Timor in the winter months; it appears, therefore, that 
part of the birds, which visit China, Japan and Siberia in summer, make their 
way to these islands in winter. Nevertheless some, apparently, remain in the 
East Indies and even breed there; one of Schlegel’s specimens (Nr. 44) is dated 
“Ternate May P*' 1861”, another is a “young one, with red bands, taken from 
the nest in Java (voyage of S. Muller, Nr. 30)”. The following note of Mr. de 
Bocarme suggests that it is in the mountains, not in the plains, of Java that 
the species breeds: “In February and in March this Cuckoo descends in Java 
from the mountains; it is to he found in the bushes and even in the Bhizo- 
phores by the sea-shore. The male is then mute. It is during these two 
months that this species moults; at a height of more than seven thousand feet 
and thereabouts, in a European temperature, every part of the forest resounds 
with the voice of this bird, which is never to be heard but when perched on 
the top of the highest trees” (b 2). 
C. saturatus is parasitic in its habits, but Capt. Hutton, writing in Hume’s 
“Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds” (2), says that “when the young bird is old 
enough to leave the nest, the foster-parents feed it no longer, and it is then 
supplied by the old Cuckoo, or at all events by one of the same species. This 
I have myself repeatedly witnessed At Jeripance, below jMussurie, 
I have seen the young Cuckoo sitting for hours together on a branch waiting 
for the return of the adult bird, which continued every now and then to bring 
supplies of caterpillars wherewith to satisfy the apparently insatiable appetite 
of the nestling, until at last both would fly off to another spot. To satisfy 
myself that it was really this Cuckoo that fed the young, I shot one in the very act, 
and found it to be no other than our summer visitant, Cuculus intermediusP 
Meyer & Wigles wortli, Birds of Celebes (Oct. 22nd, 1897). 
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